Cubist Inspired Portraits

Kinder Fall Leaves

Changing a Summer green leaf into a Fall warm colored leaf, using oil pastels and for a bit of detail with added a cut and glued yarn center vein.


Student works were displayed on the bulletin board near the front office for all to enjoy.

Pink Table

Inspired by the work of Henri Matisse this projects combines collage and oil pastels.

Loud Lion

Loud Rectangle Lion. Inspired by the graphic design  work of Ed Emberley. We used a cardboard rectangle as a pattern to create the head shape.

Turtle Turtle in the Sea

This 3-4 part project connects to Aboriginal art and color theory and allows for a lot of personal creativity.

The Leaves are Falling

What season are we in right now? How do you know? What is happening in nature? What do you notice with your artist's eye? Tell me 4 colors that give you a clue?

Introduce the concept of warm colors. Model how to mix and blend oil pastels. Using hand outs and table support images, students create a large green leaf that they transform, using oil pastels into a fall leaf.

Show how to use scissors and your helping hand to cut out shapes. Practice, then return the leaves to the students. They cut out their own leaves-teacher helps label each one with the students name.Project is kept until the end of the year to be displayed as a group project.

Warm and Cool Landscape

This 3rd grade project uses, pencil, oil pastels and black sharpies. Students review the color wheel and discuss warm/cool colors looking a famous works of art. What is a landscape? Element of perspective  Using direct drawing they create a simple 3 hill/3 tree landscape. The tree should be the same style on each hill but get progressively smaller as seen further in the distance. Inspired by the work of Hunderwasser and folk/primitive works (provided in table hand outs and prints seen around the room) students sketch their landscape and work on building patterns. The sky should have one moon/sun element.

Students redraw their composition on sturdy paper and go over the pencil lines using sharpie markers. They must decide on warm or cool ground/tree and warm or cool sky/moon/sun.

Starry Night in Winter

 This two part project connects to Van Gogh's
Starry Nights masterpieces while allowing students to add their own seasonal winter creativity. Using black mat board they painted using sponges and corks in white tempera.
Let it dry.
Drew a Starry Nights inspired sky and added
buildings and or trees. Last painting with white glue for the sparkling glitter finish.

Warm and Cool folk art landscape

This project was inspired by a post I saw on Pinterest (will find and post later). Students learned about foreground, middleground and background while creationg a very simple and stylized country scene.

Warm and cool oil pastels were used to add color. Last, they could ouline their completed design with a black oil pastel.

March 2010

Cozy Cottage-oil pastle drawings, center/circle warm colors, surrounding area cool colors.

March-April Picasso inpired self portraits

4th grade oil pastel Picasso inspired self portraits-

Self portraits and more Session 4

Kinder, First and Second
Oil pastel self portraits
on 6x9 color construction paper